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The Secretariat co-organized "2005 Symposium on Water Management Policy in Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand and Yangtze River Basin, China". Prof. Wang Yicheng, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research), a co-investigator of a joint research project secretariat gave a lecture on 'Flood Control Master Plan for the Changjiang River'

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"JICA region-focused Training Course "Flood Hazard Mapping" In order to mitigate flood disasters in the developing countries, the PWRI starts a new training course "Flood Hazard Mapping" in cooperation withJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) aiming at technology transfer on flood hazard mapping."Click here for more detail.

18-22

The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) was held at the International Conference Center Kobe and its adjoining hotel, Kobe Portopia Hotel. We have made contributions to the two theme specific sessions, "Research on Floods and Landslides and A New International Initiative for Risk Reduction" and "Knowledge Sharing and Comprehensive Flood Risk Management through Educational Training."Click here for more detail.

PWRI organized the "International Conference on Advances in Integrated Mekong River Management" from November 24 to 27, 2004 at Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, the Lao People's Democratic Republic as a member of the Japanese Research Revolution 2002 project (RR2002) team. Mr. Yoshitani served on the Scientific Committee of this conference. Click here for more detail.

22-26

The 12th Meeting of the UNESCO IHP Regional Steering Committee and its associated conference was held in Adelaide, Australia. Mr. Yoshitani expressed PWRI's appreciation for RSC Committee's support to the plan of an international centre for water-related hazard and its risk management in the previous RSC meeting and reported preparatory activities in the past one year since the previous meeting.Click here for more detail.

Participated in the 12th Session of the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to discuss future activities of the Commission and to introduce Japan's efforts to reduce flood damage from the global point of view. Click here for more detail.

International Conference on "Climate Change: a challenge or a threat for water management" was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mr. IKEDA gave a presentation on "Flood management under the climatic variability and its future perspective in Japan" Click here for more detail.

20-23

International Symposium on Living with Risks was held in Seoul, South Korea. "Flood hazard mapping" which PWRI is now preparing under JICA, was introduced Click here for more detail.

20-24

The 16th Session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council was held at the UNESCO H.Q. The resolution which supports establishing UNESCO Centre was adopted Click here for more detail.